Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Christopher Puglia Direction: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff, Dr. Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, MSc. Pierrick Nicolet The purpose of this thesis is to explore the socio-economic and technical issues linked to …
Christopher Puglia: Multidisciplinary study of two anthropogenic landslides in Sindhupalchok and Ramecchap districts, Central Nepal Read More
Roya Olyazadeh Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Dr. Marc-Henri Derron, Dr. Christian Kaiser, Dr. Anne Puissant, Prof. Suren Erkman Impacts of natural disasters have increased worldwide in the past decades. …
Roya Olyazadeh: Natural hazards and open source development: adoption and application of mobile and Web-GIS technologies in risk management Read More
Cécile d’Almeida Supervisors: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff, MSc. Antoine Guerin Rockfall hazard is a major concern in mountainous area and its characterization is needed to set proper safety dispositions. An estimation of the …
Cécile d’Almeida: Model and cartography of the Saint-Eynard cliff erosion by rockfalls Read More
Maxime Collombin Supervisor: Dr. Marc-Henri Derron The study of fractured reservoirs is of primary importance for hydrocarbons, water and geothermal exploration. The investigation of natural fracture networks affecting potential reservoir is a …
Maxime Collombin: De l’affleurement à la caractérisation réservoir : étude de fracturation sur la base d’une acquisition LiDAR Read More
Susanna Büsing Supervisor: Prof. Michel Jayboyedoff Internal Experts: MSc. Antoine Guerin, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron External Expert: Dr. Marcia Phillips On 31 July 2011, a rockfall with an estimated volume of 7000 …
Susanna Büsing: Analyse spécifique de l’activité récente des éboulements au Piz Lischana (Basse-Engadine) Read MoreThe Risk group participed in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Lausanne whose results where published in Nature Plants . Results reveal that the genome of oak Napoleon has …
3D modelling the oak of Napoléon Read Moreby Pierrick Nicolet, Marc Choffet, Marc-Henri Derron, Michel Jaboyedoff and Bertrand Lauraux: “Evaporite sinkhole risk for a building portfolio” Karst-related hazard can be a problem for buildings, especially in the …
New publication in Environmental Earth Sciences about sinkhole-related risk Read MoreFive people of the Risk Analysis Group went to Bondo, Canton of Graubünden, on 29 September 2017 to make a helicopter flight along the debris flow and cliff collapse of …
Flight at Bondo (GR) Read MoreHYDRUS short course and 5th International Conference “Hydrus Software Applications to Subsurface Flow and Contaminant Transport Problems”, 26-30 march 2017, Prague Agnes Kouame, PhD student in the Risk group, attended …
HYDRUS CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP, PRAGUE 2017- CZECH REPUBLIC Read MorePierrick Nicolet defended publicly on the 9th of January his PhD entitled “Quantitative risk analysis for natural hazards at local and regional scales”. The thesis aims at improving the quantification …
Thesis on risk analysis available for download Read More